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    Short Story The Giver

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    It had been a cruel winter‚ with the crops withered into dust and any money dwindled‚ Aleksandr’s family had cowered into itself with chill and gnawing hunger. One grey day as his mother laid shivering in her bed‚ Aleksandr knelt by her side‚ her grey hand clasped in his. “Mother‚ we are all dying. There is something I must do.” The woman’s sallow face frowned. “There is nothing out in this storm to help us anymore‚ my son.” Aleksandr shook his head firmly‚ “There has to be a way. I shall

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    Paid: A Short Story

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    wearing a pink velvet hello kitty long sleeve shirt and jeans that had embroidered sparkles and butterfly designs. Obviously I was dressed to impress. After visiting with my parents for a couple weeks I was about to spend my first night with my new family. My mom is a petite Asian women but despite her small frame she is exerts confidence and has a Type A personality while my dad is a big white guy who is kind and is perfect for my mom because he is Type B personality. Upon meeting them I knew they

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    Dystopian Short Story

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    Betrayal of Freedom Here I am again; working for another rich family to do their labour. I hate having no freedom. I have been owned by different rich families ever since I was born. I am now 16‚ 17 in a month‚ I think. I kind of lose track. I never met my parents. They were slaves for other folks so I guess I won’t ever get to meet them. I don’t get jealous of the rich families though. They got no respect; the young spoilt‚ spiteful children treat me like a piece of shit on their shoe. I can’t do

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    Baltimore: A Short Story

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    It was another day in the city I love. Baltimore. Like any other resplendent city in all of the states. Baltimore has been my only home for years. However‚ today in Baltimore something felt different. “Ahhh…‚” I yawned and moaned as I tried to free myself from my bed sheets. I opened the shutters of the windows to look outside the early sunlight began to creep out as all livelihood of the distant inner city began to awake. “Will‚ it is time to wake up‚” shouted Will’s mother above the staircases

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    Kutztown: A Short Story

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    I let go of what dragged me down and focused on what’s in front of me. I became aware that if I wanted others to understand what I was going through‚ I would have to be vocal about it. I first told my family I had been diagnosed with SAD‚ or seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder usually happens around the same time every year. It is more common for it to occur in the fall until the spring months. For me‚ I had experienced feeling

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    lived a poor family. In this family was a teenage boy named Andrew. Andrew’s family was really poor and farming was the only thing that kept them alive. Andrew’s parents didn’t have any jobs and they also didn’t have any family on the island with them. Life was really hard for them but they did the best that they could. On their little farm were many different vegetables and animals. They had chickens‚ pigs‚ cows‚ ducks‚ but all these things weren’t enough. Even though Andrew’s family had all these

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    Pukalani: A Short Story

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    It was a rainy day in Pukalani. I got home from a exhausting day at practice and my dad just finished showering. As I walked into his room I asked if I could talk to him about when he realized he wanted to go to college. My dad usually never talked about school especially High School. I guess he never thought i’d ask him about college because it wasn’t to long ago. “Sure why not”. We began talking about why he wanted to

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    Loyalty

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    LOYALTY In the play as the audience we witness loyalty in two different ways. It can be referred as loyalty and disloyalty‚ but I want to emphasize on loyalty in the concepts of one which the loyalty that audience seeks in a character as a true man and the other one is which the loyalty that the character shows to themselves. In the play we see the loyalty of Macbeth to himself where he murders King Duncan in order to take the crown. This proves his loyalty to his own ambitions and desires. Also

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    Hershey: A Short Story

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    Madison woke up this morning and felt a little dizzy. She figured she just needed something to eat and she would be fine. Robert‚ her dad‚ was just coming up the stairs to wake her up. He is a news reporter so he has to leave early. Normally he wakes her up about the time he is leaving. Every day after school‚ Madison goes home and watch my dad on tv. Today’s show was weird. You could tell they were concerned about something. They were talking about the differences in the rotation of the earth. Madison

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    Mute: A Short Story

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    Mute “Deeeeeeeep” The heart minder screamed letting me know that cancer was winning “DOCTOR” I screamed at the top of my lungs. I took one last gazes into my sister’s eyes as the nurse pushed me out the room and all I witness was defeat and surrender. “ Myasia I’m sorry‚ I love you” she battled to pronounce. “ Taj don’t talk like that‚ I’m not letting you go… I can’t” I replied bursting into tears and pushing through the nurse into my sister’s arms . “Myasia listen‚ y-you can never t-talk…”

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